From Insurrection to Revolution in Mexico
Subtitle: Social Bases of Agrarian Violence, 1750-1940
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: January 1, 1989
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780691022949
Subjects: Revolutions & coups; Revolutions; History - General History; History: World; Latin America; Rural conditions; Latin America - General; Violence in Society; History / Latin America; Latin American Studies; Political Science and International Relations; History; Mexico; Peasant uprisings
First sentence: In 1910, Emilio Zapata led the villagers of Anenecuilco, in the state of Morelos south of Mexico City, in a fight over lands claimed by a nearby sugar estate.